Vitor Dias Mihessen is the general coordinator of Casa Fluminense, and co-founder and co-director of the institution. Born and raised in Realengo, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Vitor is an economist with a degree from UFRJ and a master's degree from UFF, specializing in public policy. His main areas of work are urban and social mobility and economic, racial, gender, and climate inequalities in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. He seeks to generate debates and actions on public policy based on collective diagnoses and proposals. He is co-creator of social technologies such as Geração Cidadã de Dados (GCD) and Agendas Locais 2030.